BOOK DATA Paloma Duong, Portable Postsocialisms: New Cuban Mediascapes After the End of History. University of Texas Press, 2024. $45.00 cloth; $45.00 e-book. 296 pages.

Paloma Duong’s monograph Portable Postsocialisms: New Cuban Mediascapes After the End of History is a timely contribution to Cuban, post(socialist), and media studies. Dealing with questions of piracy, sustainability, migration, and private entrepreneurship, the author provides a unique perspective on the island’s media landscape in a postsocialist context and a crucial foundation for analyzing Cuba’s current socioeconomic settings amid financial reordering and increased inflation. Duong distinguishes the postsocialist condition, which pertains to global political and economic changes after the fall of the Socialist Bloc, from postsocialist contexts related to specific local transformations in cultural, economic, and social aspects of material and subjective life. In other words, postsocialism is not the aftermath of capitalism’s main alternative ideology, but rather a context where growing markets concur...

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